NORTHUMBRIA University and Newcastle University are moving all of their classes online due to coronavirus outbreaks. All programmes at Northumbria and Newcastle universities will be delivered online unless face-to-face teaching is an essential part of the course. The temporary changes will come into effect from Thursday (8 October) for a […]
NORTHUMBRIA University has announced it will move to online-learning as they are following the Department of Education’s guidelines following the backlash on Vice Chancellor, Andrew Wathey. While the Newcastle-based university may not be the worst university for confirmed covid cases – 770, with the likes of the University of Nottingham, […]
THE North East’s very first graduate from a national pilot programme designed to ‘professionalise’ child and family support work has just completed her course at the University of Sunderland (UoS). UoS was selected as one of only eight universities in the country – and the first in the region […]
POLICE have arrested an 11th person in connection with the suspected drug deaths of three Tyneside university students. The three – two 18-year-olds from Newcastle University and a 21-year-old Northumbria University student – died over the weekend, along with an 18-year-old male from Washington, with drugs suspected to have contributed […]
A NORTHUMBRIA Police dog has been praised by a top cop after helping hunt down a burglary suspect who allegedly threatened his victim with a knife. At about 8.20am on Saturday (October 3) police were alerted to a raider at a home in Ashfield Park, Whickham, Gateshead. He was […]
A HIGH COURT judge is set to oversee the latest leg of a lengthy legal fight between ex-England footballer Alan Shearer and a former financial adviser. More than three years ago, the former Southampton, Blackburn and Newcastle striker agreed a settlement with Kevin Neal after claiming that he was given […]
A NEW report has revealed that 74% of workers in the arts and cultural sectors across the North East have experienced or witnessed discrimination, harassment or mistreatment. The North East Cultural Worker Discrimination, Harassment and Mistreatment (DHM) Survey Report, is the result of a “strong concern for our cultural […]
By Jane Kirby, Health Editor, and Ian Jones Press Association THE North East is among areas in England where the weekly rate of new Covid-19 cases has jumped, with the addition of nearly 16,000 cases which went unreported because of a technical error with an Excel spreadsheet.The problem has led […]
A PARAMEDIC student from the University of Sunderland (UoS) proved a guardian angel for a cyclist badly injured in a road crash. Kay Norris was able to put her trainee skills into action after witnessing the incident, which left cyclist Andrew Moore with a catalogue of injuries. Now Andrew […]
A UNIVERSITY of Sunderland project which aims to support manufacturers across the North East has secured an extra £6million in funding. The University’s Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing Project (SAM) – one of the region’s largest investment programmes – aims to help businesses become more productive and sustainable. Since then, the programme, which […]